The purpose of this paper is to historiographically analyze early literature enunciating the systematic-process paradigm in geomorphology, with particular emphasis on notions concerning Gilbert and systems.
It is the aim of the present paper to examine some of the views of process, time and change held by 6 major figures who are, at least ostensibly, members of the « dynamic » tradition (Hutton, Lyell, Darwin, Dana, Gilbert and Horton). It is suggested